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1851.]

The Keepsake for 1851 (an illustrated annual) contains two original unpublished poems contributed by Alfred Tennyson:

three stanzas of three lines each, in the metre of "The Two Voices," never reprinted by the author.

(disfigured by a misprint, or transposition of words, in the last line of the first stanza). Included, for the first time, in the Seventh Edition of Tennyson's Poems (the first Laureate Edition), in one volume, published in 1851.

The text of this Sonnet, addressed to Macready on the occasion of his last farewell performance, and read by Mr. John Forster, with the poet's sanction, shortly afterwards, at the Public Banquet given to that actor